Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTsKXc3Cixg

haha Nas is about 2 billion times weirder than kendrick

"Not too mention" christ

matt otm

i assumed deej's post was a comedy copy&paste due to the capital letters. guess not :/

kendrick and his pals are kinda the kinder gentler odd future in a way. your mom would like kendrick! but he's got the goods! and he is totally interesting to listen to. you want to hear what he has to say. and in that way he is nas-like definitely.

it's to the point now where it makes it hard for me to listen to nas...am i'm one of the boring ones that thinks illmatic will always be the greatest hip hop LP ever....but yeah he's got such a heavy vibe of just being fucking nuts now, he weirds me out....and it's not in this like Lil' B/Kool Keith way where their persona is being kooky (B) or insane (KK) but there are always like 25 throwaway o_O lines on any Nas album (if not more) where you're like what the fuck are you on dude?

like some dude pointed out on twitter the weird "b3stiality p0rn" reference that comes out of nowhere on the new album

haha you're overstating it a little but that creeping strangeness and oversharing is part of what imo makes post-Illmatic Nas continue to be worth listening to

yeah maybe!

i like the new one pretty much

omg google upper mississippi sh@kedown and find bestiality porn

Lol

i attribute those weird nas throwaway lines less to weirdness per se and more to a certain tone-deafness about how to say things, which is obviously an odd thing to say about a rapper, but i finished his latest album feeling vaguely sorry for him

Yeah, that's otm about Nas' tonedeafness.

My point earlier is there are so many different points of Nas' history and facets of his character that have come and gone that "the new Nas" without any other explication is pretty much a Rorschach Test.

i don't know if there's an elegant way to say women love it when you fart in your face because you are psychic

My point earlier is there are so many different points of Nas' history and facets of his character that have come and gone that "the new Nas" without any other explication is pretty much a Rorschach Test.

― Vagelis (The Reverend), Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:20 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im thinking more in critical reception & less in music although probably musical presentation

more like "the new Jay Electronica" or "the new Lupe Fiasco" -- the new Nas is just a meaningless torch to get passed around the way rock critics used to crown a new Dylan every couple years

hes certainly made better songs than either of those dudes

(which, to not contradict myself, is why people have responded to him in a way that feels closer to nas than the others)

nah his career so far is v similar to Jay Electronica, scarcity of material aside

Sort of - but if you look into it TDE and Kendrick have tons of material, more charisma, and maybe even release dates.

i don't feel very compelled to look into it since "The Recipe" and "Swimming Pools" make him seem less charismatic than Nas

this is so stupid

lupe fiasco is a much better comparison than nas

yah

i think kendrick has a lot wider fanbase than lupe ever did, in terms of music fans.

doesnt mean larger per se, although im sure hes on the way, but i hear a lot of ppl who would never have checked w/ lupe beyond 'that kick push song is cool' going all-in with kendrick as an artist

I'd say Lupe is way closer to Nas than any of them are to Kendrick.

please. stop. all of you.

ahah

Following in Lupe's footsteps (he played this a couple of years back IIRC):

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/598666_368257676586649_2045742381_n.jpg

at his show in chicago last weekend he brought lupe out (to wild cheers & chants, lol) and lupe said that kendrick would be getting the "next big thing award" and "lupe fiasco's outstanding fan awards" or some such shit

also following in Lupe's footsteps in patting himself on the back for not voting

Here's the tracklist for the album. Terrifying song title for the Drake feature

1. Sherane A.K.A Master Splinter’s Daughter
2. ***** Don’t Kill My Vibe – Featuring Lady Gaga
3. Backseat Freestyle
4. The Art Of Peer Pressure
5. Money Trees – Featuring Jay Rock
6. Poetic Justice – Featuring Drake
7. Good Kid
8. M.A.A.D City – Featuring Mc Eiht
9. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended)
10. Sing About Me I’m Dying Of Thirst
11. Real – Featuring Anna Wise Of Sonnymoon
12. Compton – Featuring Dr. Dre

terrifying song titles galore

and album title

no cartoons & cereal??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

also:

1. Sherane A.K.A Master Splinter’s Daughter

wut

MC Eiht on there! Nice

have a hard time believing that's real

The track-list or MC Eiht on this album?

well shucks

Kendrick Lamar ‏@kendricklamar
Nope. Wrong track list.

he doesn't say it's entirely fake though

some of that is real but it's also missing some confirmed tracks (protip" if you're gonna make a fake tracklist at least remember to put the biggest hit single on there) and just scans as pretty fake to me. also none of the big rap blogs posted it.

that drake song is real tho i think

the Drake song and "Dying of Thirst" are both real

I love Section.80 but more and more I'm thinking there's no way that this isn't gonna be a big disappointment, great as "Cartoons & Cereal" is

i don't know -- i haven't heard anything beyond the two singles but i trust kendrick to have pretty good quality control. both in talking to him and in hearing the stuff that's come out since section.80 i have a hard time believing it won't be a pretty good major label debut. i really got the sense that he makes the music he wants to make so i don't think it's gonna be far from an A&R'd shitpile, but i also think he's good enough that it's not gonna feel like a glorified mixtape a la krit's album.

he told me he did a song with damien marley so that might be on there as well tho i think that they still haven't figured out what exactly is gonna be on the record

so i don't think it's gonna be far from an A&R'd shitpile

scratch "don't" from this

'recipe' is also one of the best songs of the year so theres that

failed banger status

ya recipe is so dope

realizing that kendrick says "what more can i say?" in the chorus deepened my indifference towards that song